New York University

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News about New York University, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 27, 2015

Private investigator Loren Berger declines to discuss her inquiry about New York University Prof Andrew Ross, who criticized exploitation of migrant workers building university's campus in Abu Dhabi; is also gathering information about New York Times reporter Ariel Kaminer. MORE

Mar. 19, 2015

New York University names Andrew Hamilton, currently the head of Oxford University, as its 16th president; Hamilton will replace John Sexton following vote of no confidence in 2013; will face series of financial and logistical challenges as University pursues ambitious international expansion. MORE

Mar. 17, 2015

New York University professor Andrew Ross is barred entry into United Arab Emirates, where NYU opened new campus in 2014, over his criticism of labor practices there. MORE

Mar. 4, 2015

New York University is fielding its first varsity baseball team since program was dropped 41 years earlier in the 1974 season; team faces significant challenges with its roster of 23 freshman, six sophomores, two juniors and no seniors. MORE

Feb. 11, 2015

Jim Dwyer About New York column cites Human Rights Watch report showing severity of mistreatment of workers constructing New York University campus in United Arab Emirates, noting university codified fair treatment for workers, but code was not enforced; remarks episode highlights moral peril of combining liberal ideals with economy reliant on cheap labor from poor migrant workers. MORE

Dec. 2, 2014

New York University says procedures intended to protect workers at its Shanghai campus were not properly reviewed by Jones Lang LaSalle, real estate consulting firm hired to conduct labor compliance monitoring at building site; revelation comes amid review of labor conditions at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus. MORE

Oct. 15, 2014

New York State’s Court of Appeals unanimously votes to allow New York University's plan for major expansion in the heart of Greenwich Village. MORE

Oct. 14, 2014

Exhibit Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office, at New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Institute, recreates Eugenics Record Office, early 20th century institution where scientists applied rudimentary genetics to singling out supposedly superior races and degrading minorities. MORE

Sep. 22, 2014

Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center’s director of public programming, will head New York University’s performing arts center in Abu Dhabi. MORE

Sep. 3, 2014

Dancer turned historian Jennifer Homans is set to open the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, organization that will establish ballet as serious subject of academic inquiry and weigh ballet's past, present and future; center seeks to invigorate art form following Homans' assertion that ballet is dying. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Dale Jamieson, professor of environmental studies, philosophy and law who runs Animal Studies Initiative at New York University, describes his typical Sunday routine. MORE

Jun. 27, 2014

New York University and government of Abu Dhabi say that investigative firm headed by former federal prosecutors has been hired to conduct inquiry into allegations of widespread labor abuse at university's new Middle East campus. MORE

Jun. 22, 2014

Christopher Gray Streetscapes column observes that old network of easements and rights of way beside and behind mansions on Fifth Avenue between East 78th and 79th Streets made life more comfortable for millionaires; notes, however, that configurations are now creating a headache for New York University, which is facing resistance for plans to build connecting walkway from its Institute of Fine Arts to condominium next door. MORE

Jun. 16, 2014

Two professors have evidence of what has long been suspected: Insider trading is common, arising from perhaps a quarter of all public company deals. MORE

Jun. 14, 2014

New York University names insurance industry executive William R Berkley as chair-designate for its board of trustees. MORE

Jun. 3, 2014

Appraisal column; New York University proposes plan to connect two Upper East Side buildings, one of which is a landmark structure, with a 10-foot-long passageway in a sunken alley; proposal is encountering resistance from some neighborhood residents who fear that NYU's plan will negatively impact property values. MORE

May. 26, 2014

Former President Bill Clinton delivers the first graduation speech at New York University in Abu Dhabi, despite pleas in the United States that he boycott the event to protest the poor treatment of foreign laborers who helped construct the new campus; expresses support for NYU president John Sexton, while voicing his concerns regarding the issue. MORE

May. 22, 2014

New York University apologizes following report about mistreatment of workers who built its Abu Dhabi campus; says that it will work with its partner, Abu Dhabi government, to investigate; experts on labor conditions in region warn that it will be difficult to prevent further abuses on campus, given laws currently in place. MORE

May. 20, 2014

New York University issues apology to any workers on its newly completed Abu Dhabi campus who were treated poorly, following news reports of widespread abuses among labor force that numbered about 6,000 at its peak; article described workers being arrested, beaten and deported to their home countries after striking over pay; conditions are common to projects in United Arab Emirates, where poor South Asian immigrants make up most of the work force. MORE

May. 19, 2014

Workers who built New York University's new campus in Abu Dhabi say they were subjected to grim conditions, crackdowns and violence; labor exploitation is common in United Arab Emirates, where strikes are illegal, but NYU issued 'statement of labor values' in 2009 that was intended to protect the workers; revelations undermine university's vision of creating a zone of cultural freedom in the Arab world. MORE

May. 2, 2014

New York University Law School trustee Daniel E Straus is stepping down; Straus's company had subpoenaed personal emails, texts and diaries of two NYU law students who have supported efforts on campus to draw attention to labor dispute in which Straus is involved. MORE

May. 1, 2014

Michael Powell Gotham column; New York University School of Law trustee Daniel E Straus subpoenas two students, Luke Herrine and Leo Gertner, for their correspondence after they publicly criticized his labor practices; Herrine and Gertner had been supporting union strike to oppose cuts Straus was fighting to make at two nursing home companies he owns. MORE

Apr. 13, 2014

Martin Lipton has played large role in shaping agenda at New York University during his 16 years as chairman of the board; Lipton's views on running university parallel his earlier views in corporate world, including supremacy of incumbent management; Lipton plans to step down in 2015. MORE

Mar. 10, 2014

Editorial praises Columbia University and New York University for their plans to tighten their policies on unpaid internships; contends the universities are setting a good example for other colleges and universities. MORE

Mar. 7, 2014

Rejuvenated by Coach Lauren Hall-Gregory, Division III New York University women's basketball team will face New England in their first NCAA tournament game since 2009. MORE

Feb. 24, 2014

Kenneth G Langone, major benefactor of NYU Langone Medical Center, has hosted fund-raisers for Senate and House members who helped pass $60 billion in post-Hurricane Sandy disaster aid; such fund-raisers might be seen as cost of doing business, but they have caused distress among some NYU medical faculty members because they say Langone solicited donations from them in several mass emails. MORE

Feb. 19, 2014

Former Polytechnic University officially became NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering on Jan 1, after start of the academic semester, several Polytechnic sports teams, called NYU-Poly, have been allowed to remain intact through the end of their respective spring seasons; as a result, dozens of NYU-Poly athletes are competing in various sports for a school that exists only in their memories. MORE

Jan. 9, 2014

Ruling by Justice Donna Mills of State Supreme Court in Manhattan to temporarily block half of New York University's sprawling expansion plan is direct outgrowth of successful struggle of preservationist Jane Jacobs in 1960s; Jacobs led effort to thwart highly contentious proposal to create Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have gutted Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park. MORE

Jan. 8, 2014

New York State Judge Donna M Mills unexpectedly blocks about half of New York University’s large and hotly debated expansion plan to build four towers in school’s leafy and largely low-scale Greenwich Village neighborhood; rules Bloomberg administration wrongfully agreed to turn over three public parks to NYU without first obtaining approval from the State Legislature. MORE

Dec. 13, 2013

Graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University vote overwhelmingly to unionzie; as affiliates of the United Automobile Workers, they will make up the only such union in the country recognized by a private university. MORE

Dec. 2, 2013

Mary Schmidt Campbell, who is retiring as dean of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, says there is plenty of unfinished business in field of arts education; Campbell is looking forward to raising her voice on issues close to her heart after career spent keeping those opinions relatively quiet while holding many high-profile positions in New York's cultural world. MORE

Nov. 27, 2013

New York University and union for graduate assistants announces they have reached agreement under which university will again recognize and bargain with union if majority vote in favor of having union representation; school's president John Sexton has been criticized for 2005 decision to stop recognizing labor union that represented some 1,200 assistants. MORE

Nov. 26, 2013

Kwame Anthony Appiah will divide his time between New York and the university’s international sites, including its degree-granting branches in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. MORE

Nov. 5, 2013

Asher Vongtau, New York University sophomore, survives fall between two TriBeCa buildings, but was trapped, undetected and badly injured in tiny crevice for nearly 36 hours; New York City Fire Dept rescue operations officials, who had to quickly execute a rescue through the wall of a garage, say that it is possible given Vongtau's position and layout of buildings that he was on roof of his 18-story dormitory when he fell. MORE

Nov. 4, 2013

Missing New York University student Asher Vongtau is found and rescued from bottom of narrow shaft between two buildings in TriBeCa; he is in serious condition at Bellevue Hospital Center; university officials say they do not know how student ended up wedged in the space, and report that the rescue effort took more than 90 minutes, forcing firefighters to cut through a cinder block wall. MORE

Aug. 15, 2013

New York University says that it will no longer lend money to top employees to buy vacation homes, and that it will grant faculty members more participation in school decisions; move is part of slate of changes designed to ease tensions between university leaders and its rank-and-file professors; university also announces that is president John Sexton will step down once his term ends in 2016. MORE

Aug. 4, 2013

A marathon performance of the composer John Zorn’s “Book of Angels” and a festival of works from Chinese artists are among the offerings in the 2013-14 season at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. MORE

Jul. 11, 2013

Chen Guangcheng, blind legal advocate who challenged Chinese government over its harsh family planning policies, finds himself enmeshed in controversies over partisan politics after a year in United States; backed by coterie of conservative figures, he has publicly accused New York University of bowing to Chinese pressure and prematurely ending his fellowship this summer. MORE

Jul. 11, 2013

Sen Charles E Grassley, Republican of Iowa, wants to examine New York University's executive compensation practices, specifically loans to faculty and executives, but insists university is not forthcoming and has yet to provide crucial information requested; university holds that it has complied, that all categories of information have been provided, and that scrutiny is unfair. MORE

Jun. 25, 2013

Chen Guangcheng, blind legal activist who fled China with his family amid a diplomatic crisis in 2012, arrives in Taiwan for 18-day visit; during news conference, he praises Taiwanese democracy while refusing to talk about recent allegations that New York University, which had hosted him for past year, had been pressured by China to remove him. MORE

Jun. 22, 2013

Officials at New York University say several electronic devices given to Chen Guangcheng, Chinese legal advocate, were loaded with spyware designed to track his family's movement and their online activity during his fellowship there; Chen says discovery of tracking software comes as a complete surprise. MORE

Jun. 18, 2013

New York University has made loans to executives and star professors for expensive vacation homes, in what educational experts call a bold new frontier for lavish university compensation; already attracts attention for multimillion-dollar loans it extends to some faculty for buying homes in New York City, practice it has defended as necessary to attract talent to one of most expensive cities on earth, but experts say aid for vacation homes is all but unheard of. MORE

Jun. 17, 2013

Chen Guangcheng, dissident legal advocate whose escape from house arrest to American Embassy in Beijing provoked diplomatic crisis in 2012, says he is being forced to leave New York University over concerns that his activism is harming university's relationship with China. MORE

May. 21, 2013

New York University School of Medicine researchers Yudong Zhu, Xing Yang and Ye Li are arrested on commercial bribery charges; prosecutors say the three medical imaging researchers conspired to take bribes from a Chinese medical imaging company and a Chinese-sponsored research institute to share nonpublic information about their NYU work. MORE

May. 12, 2013

Crates of ceramic pigs found in an all-but-forgotten storage area at New York University left some wondering where the tchotchkes had come from and why they were there. MORE

May. 11, 2013

New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development votes 117 to 45 against university president John Sexton, bringing to four the number of NYU schools or campuses who have rejected his leadership through no confidence votes; votes call attention to strong opinions that Sexton’s 11 years in office continue to generate. MORE

Apr. 4, 2013

Trevor W. Morrison will succeed Richard L. Revesz, who is stepping down on May 31 after 11 years. MORE

Mar. 26, 2013

Letter from Martin Lipton, chairman of New York University board of trustees, comments on Jeff Goodwin's March 21 Op-Ed article criticizing NYU president John Sexton. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Op-Ed article by New York University professor Jeff Goodwin explains why faculty of arts and science approved no-confidence resolution against university president John Sexton; expresses hope that Sexton will come to understand that NYU would be better off with more trusted and less divisive leader. MORE

Mar. 16, 2013

Faculty of New York University's Arts and Science college approves vote of 'no confidence' in university president John Sexton, handing him embarrassing setback when he is aggressively selling school's expansion plans at home and abroad. MORE

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Over half of the university’s graduate teaching and research assistants have signed forms saying they want to unionize, but the university says that treating students as employees could hurt their education.

The visa cancellation for a Bangladeshi worker from New York University’s Saadiyat Island campus, one of hundreds sent home because of “refusal to work” last October. The men, employees of the BK Gulf company, went on strike, which is illegal in the United Arab Emirates.